{"id":762,"date":"2009-04-07T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/06\/socialism-in-class\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T07:54:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:54:02","slug":"socialism-in-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/07\/socialism-in-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialism in class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following came to me in email.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if this really happened, but it SHOULD be true, since, from what I know about college students, this is exactly what would happen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. The class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.<\/p>\n<p>The professor then said, &#8220;OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.&#8221;\u00a0 All grades would be averaged, and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.<\/p>\n<p>After the first test the grades were averaged, everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset, and the students who studied little were happy.\u00a0 But, as the second test rolled around, the students who had studied little, studied even less, and the ones who had studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too, so they studied little..<\/p>\n<p>The second test average was a D!\u00a0\u00a0 No one was happy.\u00a0 When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F.<\/p>\n<p>The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings, and no one would study for anyone else.\u00a0 To their great surprise,all failed, and the professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail because the harder to succeed the greater the reward, but when a government takes all the reward away, no one will try or succeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=15bb8aa2-94e0-8299-a42a-04d453825fd6\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-762\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/07\/socialism-in-class\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-762\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/07\/socialism-in-class\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-762\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/07\/socialism-in-class\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/07\/socialism-in-class\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/07\/socialism-in-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following came to me in email.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if this really happened, but it SHOULD be true, since, from what I know about college students, this is exactly what would happen: An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. 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